Emma Nelson
@emma-nelson.bsky.social
PhD candidate working on the medieval library of Lincoln Cathedral & assistant at Chetham's Library 📚📚📚
Reposted by Emma Nelson
The summer is going by super quickly (nearly August already???)! Make sure that the deadline for “Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined” conference doesn’t sneak up on you. Get them in by 15 September!
CFP for Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (20-21 April 2026). Deadline 15 September 2025.
July 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The summer is going by super quickly (nearly August already???)! Make sure that the deadline for “Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined” conference doesn’t sneak up on you. Get them in by 15 September!
Reposted by Emma Nelson
Call for papers, Leeds IMC 2026 - Big data and medieval manuscripts. Please consider submitting a proposal!
August 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Call for papers, Leeds IMC 2026 - Big data and medieval manuscripts. Please consider submitting a proposal!
Reposted by Emma Nelson
Once a hub of Ottoman culture, Süleyman Efendi’s library was scattered by conquest. In our PhD Research Series, Rawda El-Hajji traces these manuscripts, showing how they help reconstruct lost intellectual communities and reveal the fate of cultural heritage in times of conflict:
uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji
uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji
August 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Once a hub of Ottoman culture, Süleyman Efendi’s library was scattered by conquest. In our PhD Research Series, Rawda El-Hajji traces these manuscripts, showing how they help reconstruct lost intellectual communities and reveal the fate of cultural heritage in times of conflict:
uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji
uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji
Reposted by Emma Nelson
If early medieval Aquitaine or Carolingian political culture is your jam, please do give this a read (also on Open Access thanks to @livunihss.bsky.social @livunilibrary.bsky.social)!
Fresh on early view: @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social on how Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) balanced kingship "as an office and as a dynastic status".
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If early medieval Aquitaine or Carolingian political culture is your jam, please do give this a read (also on Open Access thanks to @livunihss.bsky.social @livunilibrary.bsky.social)!
Reposted by Emma Nelson
New Walking Tour Date
The next Medieval Jewish Lincoln Walking Tour will be on Sun 7 Sept at 2:30pm. We've had amazing reviews of the tour so far, and we're excited to share this important chapter in Lincoln's history! For details and how to reserve, see: medievaljewishlincoln.co.uk
The next Medieval Jewish Lincoln Walking Tour will be on Sun 7 Sept at 2:30pm. We've had amazing reviews of the tour so far, and we're excited to share this important chapter in Lincoln's history! For details and how to reserve, see: medievaljewishlincoln.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New Walking Tour Date
The next Medieval Jewish Lincoln Walking Tour will be on Sun 7 Sept at 2:30pm. We've had amazing reviews of the tour so far, and we're excited to share this important chapter in Lincoln's history! For details and how to reserve, see: medievaljewishlincoln.co.uk
The next Medieval Jewish Lincoln Walking Tour will be on Sun 7 Sept at 2:30pm. We've had amazing reviews of the tour so far, and we're excited to share this important chapter in Lincoln's history! For details and how to reserve, see: medievaljewishlincoln.co.uk
I can scarcely believe it, but it's true - after several years, I've finished my thesis research at Lincoln Cathedral library! Now it's onto the home run, getting it ready for submission in September!
July 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I can scarcely believe it, but it's true - after several years, I've finished my thesis research at Lincoln Cathedral library! Now it's onto the home run, getting it ready for submission in September!
Reposted by Emma Nelson
Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free?
Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.
Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky
Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods.
Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A wonderful weekend of beautiful Cambridge libraries
May 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A wonderful weekend of beautiful Cambridge libraries
What a splendid sight, college house glowing in yesterday's sunshine at Chethams Llibrary
May 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
What a splendid sight, college house glowing in yesterday's sunshine at Chethams Llibrary